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== Life ==
== Life ==
De Rijk has suggested that Richard was the same person as [[Richard the Sophister]], known as the 'Master of the Abstractions' on the grounds that the dating of the text of the ''Abstractiones'' (a collection of sophisms that became a kind of logical textbook used to teach students to identify sophistical fallacies) is more consistent with Fishacre’s chronology (De Rijk 1962-67, Vol. II, 71) than other writers of the same period.
== Work ==
== Work ==
In Metaphysics, Fishacre's view lies within the Christian neo-Platonic tradition, that being is essence. God is completely what he is, simple and unchangeable. To the extent that created things change, they are infected with non-being (''In I Sent. 8.1''). Richard suggests in one passage that our own being follows from the composition of material and form, and so is the actualising of the essence, and therefore is an accident. God's being is truer than ours, and is identical with his substance, whereas our being is between being and non-being, because our being is to die (''ibid'').
Fishacre gives ten arguments for the existence of God, including three that are obvious variations on Anselm's argument in the ''Proslogion''.
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If there be something most simple, it would be identical with its being; otherwise it would have is being and something else besides and consequently would not be the most simple. Therefore, if anything be most simple, it would esit; but the most simple is the most simple; therefore it exists. (Long 1987, pp. 176-7).
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According to Leo Sweeney, Richard is the first western thinker to attach importance to God's infinity.
== Influence ==
== Influence ==
* Callus, D.A. (1943) 'Introduction of Aristotelian learning to Oxford', ''Proceedings of the British Academy'' 29, pp. 229-81.
* Callus, D.A. (1943) 'Introduction of Aristotelian learning to Oxford', ''Proceedings of the British Academy'' 29, pp. 229-81.
* Dales, R. (1995), ''The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century'', Leiden: Brill.
* Dales, R. (1995), ''The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century'', Leiden: Brill.
* de Rijk, L. M.: 1962-67, ''Logica Modernorum'', I-II, van Gorcum, Assen.
* Glorieux, Palémon: Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, Paris 1933.
* Glorieux, Palémon: Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, Paris 1933.
* Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi. Volumen III, 1980, S. 303.
* Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi. Volumen III, 1980, S. 303.
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